Leeat Yariv is the Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics at Princeton University, a research fellow of CEPR, and a research associate of NBER. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has held positions at UCLA and Caltech prior to her move to Princeton in 2017, where she is the founder and director of the Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (PExL). Yariv’s research focuses on political economy, market design, social and economic networks, and experimental economics. Currently, Yariv is the lead editor of the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. She has served on various journal editorial boards, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Literature, and Quantitative Economics. Yariv is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and she was elected as a member of the

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in 2020.

Education

Yariv received a B.Sc. in mathematics and a B.Sc. in physics from

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

in 1992. In 1995, she received an M.Sc. in pure mathematics from

. She received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from

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in 2001.

Academic appointments

From 2001 to 2002, Yariv was appointed as a visiting assistant professor and postdoctoral fellow at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in their Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation. Later, from 2004-2005, she continued as a visiting assistant professor at

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in their Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. After, she spent the fall of 2008 as a visiting scholar in

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's Department of Economics. In 2014, she was appointed as director of

's Social Science Laboratory (SSEL) until 2017. From 2015 to 2016 returned to

where she was a visiting professor in the Cowles Foundation. From fall of 2016 to 2017, she started her career at

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as a visiting professor in their Department of Economics. In 2018, she continued her career at

as director for the Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (PExL) where she works presently.

Publications

Yariv has co-authored numerous articles in journals such as The American Economic Review,

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, the

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, and

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. Written jointly with Allesandro Lizzeri, her paper "Collective Self Control" received the American Economic Journal's Best Paper Award for Microeconomics in 2018. She also wrote a chapter, "The Interplay Between Theory and Experiments," in the Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology, as well as co-authored chapters in Online and Matching-Based Market Design and the Handbook of Social Economics.

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